“Did you always want to marry an Asian guy?” That’s what a friend of mine asked me the other night, a question that surprised me. It’s not that I didn’t know what to say. “No, I never really even thought about it until going to China,” I told her. Then I landed in Zhengzhou, and […]

Just East of Xi’an, four hours up the railway line to Beijing, is another grand cache of art that stands in the Terracotta Warriors’ shadows, but delivers almost as many “wow” moments. I’m talking Luoyang’s Longmen Grottoes — a string of over 100,000 Buddhist images and statues carved into a hillside during China’s Wei and Tang Dynasties.